- "This is the way of ablution, so whoever exceeds this has done wrong, transgressed, and acted unjustly. It means ablution three times each." It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī (1/33) and Ibn Mājah (1/163-164) through the route of Yaʿlá who said: Sufyān narrated to us from Mūsá ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather who said: A Bedouin came to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) asking him about ablution. He showed him ablution three times each, then he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is good, despite the well-known disagreement regarding the acceptance of the narration of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather. The early and later scholars have settled on accepting it, and it suffices the reader to know the statement of the ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī about it in his book "al-Mughnī": "It is disputed, and his ḥadīth is good, and above good. Yaḥyá al-Qaṭṭān said: If a trustworthy person narrates from him, it is a proof. Aḥmad said: We might use it as evidence." Al-Bukhārī said: I saw Aḥmad, Isḥāq, Abū ʿUbayd, and most of our companions using it as evidence, so who are the people after them?! The ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar elaborated on the aforementioned disagreement and mentioned the statements of the imams regarding it, which are very conflicting, a conflict from which one cannot derive a correct conclusion except someone like him in knowledge of this noble science and investigation in it. He then concluded by saying (8/48-55): "If Ibn Maʿīn testifies that his ḥadīths are authentic, except that he did not hear them, or it is confirmed that he heard some of them, then the rest is at most a correct finding, which is one of the modes of transmission. And Allāh knows best."